WYATT, THOMAS HENRY #

Architect, of London, for whom see Oxford DNB,Directory of British Architects 1834-1914 (RIBA 2001), 1078-9, and the Wyatt family tree in Derek Linstrum, Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects: the Wyatt family (1974). Thomas Henry Wyatt, one of the prolific dynasty of architects who were descended from John Wyatt (1675-1742) of Weeford, Staffordshire, was born at Loughlynn House, Co. Roscommon, where his father Matthew Wyatt (1773-1831), a barrister, was then living. According to the account written by his grandson in the Architectural Publication Society's Dictionary of Architecture, the family moved to England in 1818 when Thomas Henry would only have been about eleven. Thomas Henry's younger brother and pupil, MATTHEW DIGBY WYATTMATTHEW DIGBY WYATT , was born in England.

In Ireland Thomas Henry Wyatt designed St Bartholomew's church, Dublin, the Church of Ireland church at Abbeyleix, Co. Laois, and enlarged and altered the Church of Ireland church at Gowran, co. Kilkenny. He also reported on the completion of the restoration of St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny.(1) He worked on several country houses: Abbey Leix, Co. Laois, Ramsfort, Co. Wexford, Lissadell, Co. Sligo, and Palmerstown House, Co. Kildare.

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References

(1)IB 18, 1 Apr 1876, 97.

7 work entries listed in chronological order for WYATT, THOMAS HENRY #

New church to accommodate 550 adults. Design by THW selected from among 5 practices invited to submit portfolio of work prior to choosing architect for church. FS laid by Viscount De Vesci, Ascension Day, 25 May 1865; consecrated by Archbp. of Dublin, 23 Dec 1867. Builder: James Scanlan, Mountmellick. Cost about £7,000, of which £2,500 provided by Ecclesiastical Commissioners, £1000 by trustees of Pembroke Estate (besides the site), £500 by Beresford Fund and £500 by late Archbishop of Duboin. part by private subscription.. Proposed spire not executed. Font given by THW. Carving throughout by C.W. Harrison.

Alts., including addition of chancel, new windows, buttresses between nave windows, doorway in N wall of tower &c. Contractors: Hayes, Bagenalstown. (But cf. Irish Times, 26 Mar 1874, which notes dedication on 24 Mar 1874 of restored chancel 'modernly used as the parish church': 'The restoration, which was a work of great diffiuclty, owing to the antiquity of the building, was conducted under the directions of the eminent architect, Mr Twiss, London'.)

'Queen Anne' style house, for Mayo Trust (in memory of Earl of Mayo who was assassinated in Andaman Islands, 1872). Builder: Henry Sharpe. Plastering work by James Hogan & Sons (and A. Moyna?). Estimated cost: £21,277. Inscription on stone tablet over front door: 'This house was built in honoured memory of Richard, Sixth Earl of Mayo, K.P., G.M.S.I., Viceroy and Governor of India, by his friends and countrymen, A.D. 1872.' (Housed burnt out by IRA, 2 Feb 1923, as reprissal for execution of 6 men at the Curragh.)